As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

A bull in just about any shop is gonna be a mess.

You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it.